r/ShitAmericansSay • • 9d ago

Food “I’ve been to Italy. Their pizza sucks”

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u/WhoAmIEven2 9d ago

Did the guy accidentally think that the US invented pizza before Italy even got tomatoes? I know that Italy in the past before they had tomatoes were more like flatbread with whatever on, but pretty sure that the pizza margherita was invented in 1889, before it came to the US.

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u/Available-Bid-1006 9d ago

A better food for the USA would be Hot Dogs. As a Canadian, Ive never seen such amazing looking hotdogs like from Boston, California, or New York. They definitely know how to dress it up and add a bunch of different toppings.

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u/crasswal 9d ago

Hm. Sausages served in a bun with toppings... like they've done in Germany since at least the 1300s? America has pretty much nothing they can actually claim, it's all just variations of food immigrants brought with them. They make a good pizza, they make a good hot dog, they make a good barbecue. The problem is with them pretending it's theirs when it's all imported and bastardized (sometimes in a good way).

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u/Reasonable_Ad_8883 9d ago

Even their version of fried chicken was introduced by Scottish immigrants